One feisty college kid who is known to challenge Sen. J.D. Vance popped up on MSNBC to argue a big flaw in former President Donald Trump’s attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris.
It’s very clear that Marcus Johnson, a political science major at Oakland University blasted Trump and Sen. Vance (R-Ohio), his running mate in an editorial published by MSNBC. He’s obviously had a belly full of Trump’s b.s.
“College students such as myself not only want to see a campaign based on the issues — and not on the character attacks, hateful rhetoric and fearmongering that the Trump campaign keeps using,” Johnson wrote. “But we also want to see a campaign that’s based on facts and not obvious lies.”
The Trump campaign has done little but spread baseless lies and hateful rhetoric that would make Hitler proud. Really, that’s all we’re hearing from Trumpland.
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Raw Story reports that Johnson turned into a viral sensation earlier in the campaign season when he slammed Vance’s obnoxious contentions while debating Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Harris’s running mate.
Johnson shredded Vance’s attack on the “Kamala Harris Administration,” labeling the insults as insulting to anyone who has a functioning understanding of how the executive branch works.
“If anybody took high school civics class they’d know what the vice president can do and what the vice president can’t do,” Johnson said in a comment that went viral after the debate concluded. “You don’t get to do what you want — you do what the president delegates want you to do.”
However, the Trump campaign doesn’t seem to understand this. How typical.
Johnson touched on this subject Monday while Trump and Vance carried on blaming Harris for policies put forth during President Joe Biden’s administration.
Furthermore, he argued Trump and Vance were purposely misleading the public in a desperate attempt to reinvigorate campaign attacks they can no longer use on Biden, who withdrew from the race earlier this year.
“It’s fair to associate her with the successes and failures of the administration,” Johnson wrote. “But it’s an insult to our intelligence to argue, as Trump and Vance are doing, that she could have already done as vice president everything she says she wants to do as president.”
Johnson asserted Trump and Vance’s rhetoric hid a particularly nasty challenge for the first Black and Asian-American woman to gain a major political party presidential nomination.
“As soon as Biden announced he was abandoning his campaign and Harris stepped into the role as Democratic nominee, I knew there’d be an unfair double standard placed on her” Johnson concluded.
“But I didn’t expect that she’d be expected to fend off attacks that most teenagers would recognize as bogus.”
Unfortunately, the Trump/Vance campaign is stuck at the high school level, using words and lies that your average 13-year-old should be able to see through.
We need sharp-witted students like Johnson to call these two on their b.s. This, and all other campaigns should be based on issues, not cat-calling, racism, and outright lies. Elections have been like this for far too long.
It really is time for change.
Featured image via Political Tribune gallery.
